Ethics investigators at the time accused her
of improperly trying to facilitate federal bailout financing and do
special favors for a Boston-based bank, OneUnited, at a time when her
husband had stock in the company worth about $200,000.

The ethics inquiry has been sidetracked for nearly a year, however,
after charges by Ms. Waters and her supporters that staff lawyers for
the committee had themselves violated House rules in their inquiry and
shown a bias against her.